Dan Harmon, who created “Community,” will exec produce the new episodes.

“I am very pleased that ‘Community’ will be returning for its predestined sixth season on Yahoo,” Harmon said in a statement. “I look forward to bringing our beloved NBC sitcom to a larger audience by moving it online. I vow to dominate our new competition. Rest easy, ‘Big Bang Theory.’ Look out, Bang Bus!”

The news brings the series closer to its goal of #sixseasonsandamovie, a social media campaign fans backed to bring the show back after NBC cancelled it in March.

Joel McHale, who stars in the series, added: “‘The reports of our cancellation have been greatly exaggerated.’ —Mark Twain (The other version of this quote has been wrong for years). #SixSeasonsAndaMovie is real. Thank you Sony. Thank you Yahoo. Thank you Dan Harmon. And thank you to the greatest f%$#ing fans in the history of the human race. It’s the internet. We can swear now.”

Along with Harmon, Russ Krasnoff (“The Soloist”) also serves as executive producer, along with Gary Foster (“Sleepless in Seattle”) and Chris McKenna (“The Mindy Project”).

Despite struggling ratings, “Community” stayed afloat for five seasons thanks to the show’s loyal fan base. When NBC did cancel the show, fans immediately launched a social media campaign urging Netflix to pick up the show. Netflix, however, denied rumors that they were in negotiations with Sony, the show’s producer, to pick it up.

For his part, Harmon wrote a blog post earlier this year admitting that he was “in the ‘eh’ column” when Sony first asked him about pursuing the show going elsewhere, but would become more enthusiastic with time.

“‘Community’ has an incredibly passionate and loyal fan base who have fought hard to keep this amazing show alive,” said Kathy Savitt, CMO of Yahoo. “We couldn’t be more excited to work with Dan, Joel, and the entire cast, as well as Sony, to deliver a great season 6.”

Zack Van Amburg, president of programming and production for Sony Pictures TV, said “The fans spoke and we listened. Thanks to Yahoo, and the amazing team that makes ‘Community’ great, we’ve avoided the Darkest Timeline yet again and plan to deliver a fantastic season.”

Added Jamie Erlicht, president of programming and production, “You can’t get to six seasons and a movie without a 6th season. Yahoo is the perfect home for the continuation of this journey.”

While Yahoo was seemingly the only digital content player not mentioned as a possible new home for “Community” after much speculation about the likes of Netflix or Hulu stepping in, the move is not totally out of left field.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been steering the tech giant further in the direction of original programming, having already announced at its so-called “newfront” presentation in May the order of its first two full-length original series.

Savitt had indicated there would likely be a few more series orders made but didn’t specify which ones. It’s unknown whether “Community” was in the cards at the time given NBC hadn’t yet made the decision to forego another season.

But with a known quantity like “Community” in tow, Yahoo is boosting its presence in a game that is already attracting more digital original programmers from Amazon to Microsoft XBox.

Comedy is also a natural extension for Yahoo considering it has dabbled in original programming before with the breakout short-form program “Burning Love,” which graduated to TV with a three-season run on E!, and a library of comedy clips from the library of “Saturday Night Live.”

Getting a broadcast sitcom to continue its run online marks the boldest attempt yet by Yahoo to make a dent in the entertainment business after years of flirtation that reach back a decade, when Terry Semel and Lloyd Braun futilely attempted to inject some showbiz DNA into a company once known previously only for search.

“Community” isn’t exactly the first property Mayer lured over from linear TV. Broadcast veteran Katie Couric was also drafted to serve as “global news anchor” on Yahoo.

“Community” also isn’t the first show to be saved by a digital platform after being canceled on broadcast TV. “Arrested Development” blazed that trail last year, when Netflix picked the deceased sitcom up for a fourth season. It ran on Fox for three seasons in 2003-2006 and, like “Community,” was canceled because of its low ratings despite a cult following.

Community is a great show and it’s a shame some people don’t understand why it is so hilarious. It is basically a grown up version of the cartoons we watched on Saturday mornings, but with real people, and better writing. It is a smartly written show and I really feel for those who don’t “get it”.

Great. They’ve just taught the absolutely insane Cult of Community that they can have everything they want if they whine and complain and throw a big enough hissy fit. Well done. As if the Millennial brats weren’t spoiled and self-entitled enough. Now, every single time a show gets cancelled, the internet will erupt in a massive fit as a small handful of devoted fanatics explode in a massive outcry of footstomping and whining. ‘Community’ hasn’t been good in years and it deserved to be cancelled.

Sorry that someone somewhere actually spoke up to defend a show that they’re passionate about and connect with.

Every time a show that people enjoy is canceled, there is an outcry. Always has been and always will be because HUMANS. It’s lazy to pin this on millennials, but I guess you needed SOMETHING to complain about today.

Seriously though, what is one form of artistic expression that you really enjoy? Wouldn’t you want to defend it if it were possible? Especially if you could make a difference, like the fans clearly did here?

Never heard of the glades, so I don’t care. What is it; a show about air fresheners?
But great news about Community! Hopefully they can get Donald Glover to come back once or twice, too. And now that they’re on the internet, I’m assuming we’ll get some good nude scenes from Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs.

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I won’t lie, when I heard negotiations with Hulu had fallen through, I had pretty much lost any hope that Community would be revived, and then, at the very last minute, a miracle.

I would have been far more excited for this had I not watched the horrific 4th season, and 2 episodes of the (only slightly better) 5th season. I’d rather see a show canceled too soon than overstay its welcome by a year or more.

Same here. I put up with the fourth season because I had hoped that it would that the show would do the sensible thing and end with the group’s graduation and that would be the finale. Not only was it not the finale, but the group didn’t even graduate. I had no desire to watch the fifth season, but they put it with ‘Parks and Rec’, which was pretty ironic since I had been wanting that to happen for years and then they did it after I didn’t care anymore, so I watch the two premier episodes which were some of the dumbest crap I’d ever seen in my life. Of course, the Cult of Community loved them simply because their Lord and Savior Dan Harmon had returned, but the fact that the group would re-enroll in college just to hang out with Jeff was insultingly stupid and that was it for me. I adore the first two seasons of ‘Community’ and in retrospect, I wish the show had been cancelled after them.

Exactly! Just hanging out and milking this cow for more than it’s worth has killed the show through and through. Now I’ll have a hard time revisiting what I actually did like, because they’ve shat upon it.

I would like to see The Glades return as well. A real ending needs to happen for this show and its fans. We really want the Glades back. Maybe Yahoo can follow suit and give us the Glades, like it did for Community.

I’m happy this show was brought back for its fans. Please bring back The Glades for its fans including myself who need a ending to an amazing show. They left us on a cliff hanger that needs many answers from. Bring back the Glades.

I agree about bringing back The Glades. It was the best cop series on T.V. It amazes me that we keep crap shows on the air that don’t have near the following as The Glades, and yet it cut with no real ending. Bring back The Glades, please, please, please

That is all well and good for this show, but what about another good show that was dumped by A&E, The Glades, would really like to see it brought back too. It’s a great show, with a good cast, and good ratings, The Glades should still be on.